[Elecraft] Mini Microphones for KX3

[Jim Brown]

On Sun,4/12/2015 11:42 AM, Phil Kane wrote:
> My company provides consulting engineering services to the Public Safety
> sector.  If you are looking for one of the devices recommended above --
> BRING MONEY!  Cheap they are not, and they usually are designed to work
> with one type or brand of manufacturer's radios.

Hams asking these questions fail to realize that mics of the sort needed 
for our ham rigs are quite generic. Perhaps we can blame Bob Heil and 
the marketing hype that made him a "name" in ham circles, allowing him 
to sell his mics for 3-4X what they cost to make. Almost any electret or 
dynamic mic will work just fine with a K3 and KX3. We can choose almost 
entirely on the basis of the physical format of the mic and its cost. If 
you're backpacking, you want light, so buy a comfortable, compact, 
lightweight, easy to pack boom headset. For use at home, it's awfully 
hard to beat the Yamaha CM500, or a similar Koss model that I haven't 
seen but that some like.

73, Jim K9YC